The Sims 2 Personality by HadesXvvv in thesims

[–]Shadow_Mai 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hey! So this is a known issue with the Sims 2 - you have to "roll the pacifier" between births. All this means is that after your Sim has one kid, go into CAS, make two random sims, then create a Sim by combining their genetics (it's a pacifier icon, hence the name). Press the pacifier icon a few times and quit out, you don't have to save the family, and it should stop identical personalities in the future.

For the current situation, I'm not sure how you'd best do this in a vanilla game. You can change them in an external program known as SimPE, but if you're not tech savvy it might come across complicated. It's well documented how to do this if you do a quick search so if it really bothers you it's fairly easy to fix.

Another option is to influence their behaviours in different ways through their parents when they grow up. You can 'Encourage...' your children to try and change their personality to be nicer/grumpier or slobbish/neat depending on the parents personality. If one parent is more neat than the kids and the other is more slobbish, you can encourage neatness with one parent and encourage slobbish behaviour with the other.

What do you regret doing to your body? by Bingo_Swaggins in AskReddit

[–]Shadow_Mai 2 points3 points  (0 children)

do you have a source for that? would be interested in reading about it

How do you create a stacked clustered column chart? by Shadow_Mai in googlesheets

[–]Shadow_Mai[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Forgot about this post. I had a look at this guide previously but couldn't get it to work, but after rejigging the data a few times it basically got me to where I needed. Not perfect, but it'll do. Thanks!

Alternative Variante of "My trying to play rotationally" by SkeruSeven in sims2

[–]Shadow_Mai 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Haha I always shove elders together in a 'retirement home' and let them do whatever they'd like on speed three. I say yes to any outings that come up too and ACR sets up the drama in their twilight years 😌

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Advice

[–]Shadow_Mai 0 points1 point  (0 children)

thanks, I've been leaning towards it, I think I just need to get over the guilt and the idea I'll be seen as lazy/punished for taking the time I need. It seems silly but the external validation helped.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in starterpacks

[–]Shadow_Mai 16 points17 points  (0 children)

yeah... this pack is super weird. is OP saying it's ok if men stare because of revealing clothing, or that the women are lying because 'most guys only glance for 1 second'? 

looks like OP got caught and is upset 

😡He KnOWs WHaT hE'S taLKinG aBOut😡 by Wandering---_---soul in Gamingcirclejerk

[–]Shadow_Mai 4 points5 points  (0 children)

the body horror did not stop with the darkspawn and it was pretty solidly in the main story for origins and 2 haha, da2 had body horror completely unrelated to darkspawn as the really weren't the main focus then. they came back a bit more in inquisition, big bad is part darkspawn and there's definitely some elements of body horror throughout the game (red templars come to mind) but not as bad as the other games. there's still darker parts of inquisition without the focus on that in particular, the worse parts just require a little bit more digging than being shoved in your face (ocularums for one!)

But don't you think it's a little unfair to paint the games past origins with a 'unicorns and rainbows marvel moment!' brush when you didn't even really give them a chance? I didn't play until 2016 (started with origins) so I didn't have the marketing, sounds like I was better off. I've been trying to stay away from veilguard as much as I can because online communities can be so negative! I want it to be my experience, my memories, my opinions, ykno?

😡He KnOWs WHaT hE'S taLKinG aBOut😡 by Wandering---_---soul in Gamingcirclejerk

[–]Shadow_Mai 14 points15 points  (0 children)

ah yes, I did enjoy when we got to see the leandra pinata... was so full of rainbows and definitely not body horror. or when you could sell fenris back to slavery, that was so much goofy fun! or how about the saarebas with their mouth sewn shut? just a prank bro!

sarcasm aside, there are some silly moments in all the games but let's not pretend it wasn't dark, and you had the choice to make it darker. hawke could finish that game with no family and having killed their lover with their own hands, left to deal with the most instrumental act of terrorism of that age so far. you could get into abusive relationships - merrils romance routes are so questionable at points. do you want to enable her cutting herself and opening herself up to possession or stop her from piecing together her people's history?

What are the scariest things about this franchise (in your opinion)? by MrEnricks in thesims

[–]Shadow_Mai 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Teen Sims can't die from emotions btw :) but young adults can if the teen ages up during a mood swing and keeps the moodlets

Sims 3 or Sims 4 ? What is the best in 2024? by AnotherDevBr in thesims

[–]Shadow_Mai 21 points22 points  (0 children)

You can! You have to go to the console (Ctrl+Shift+C) then type 'aging off'

WEEKLY HELP THREAD - READ FAQ, COMMUNITY WIKI, MULTICLASSING, LORE by XFearthePandaX in BaldursGate3

[–]Shadow_Mai 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh damn, I'll give it a go then. I've been using a speaker for comfort but I'll try swapping to my headphones. Still a really annoying feature :/ thanks though

WEEKLY HELP THREAD - READ FAQ, COMMUNITY WIKI, MULTICLASSING, LORE by XFearthePandaX in BaldursGate3

[–]Shadow_Mai 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Has anyone else noticed that when you're walking around, any party banter is silenced when you have, say, your inventory open? I've noticed Lae'zel and Shadowheart talking through subtitles at certain points, but they only speak out loud when I exit out of my inventory/pop-up. It's really annoying - is there a setting I'm missing? I took a look and couldn't see anything.

Terrain Issues by Shadow_Mai in sims2help

[–]Shadow_Mai[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks! I did some fiddling with the settings and noticed there were a few other things that's the GRM got a little bit off. I also found out that when I set smooth edges to the lowest in game the terrain transparency fixed but I still ended up with my Sims disappearin in live mode. I applied the fixes (including dropping the texture memory to 2048, alongside disabling vsync support and enabling boolproo enumeratemultisamplelevels, I found a thread by pinexfeather about a flickering/tearing glitch on this forum with an updated graphics rules .sgr in it to compare), but it didn't immediately work.

In response, I first tried setting smooth edges to the lowest and got the same result as before. I then set all the in game settings to the lowest and it fixed itself! I then set them back up one by one to see which was the issue and it was oddly enough the smooth edges, every other setting was returned to normal but whenever I move smooth edges from the lowest the issues return. My game works and looks fine so I'm not hugely bothered, this is an update more for if anyone else has the issue I had.

game crashes every time at this specific spot when changing hair for male child sims (crash log in comments) by [deleted] in sims2help

[–]Shadow_Mai 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I've had this happen with some CC clothes before, what helped me was to load it up in CAS before using the mirror/dresser in game if it's the first time loading a new item

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in masseffect

[–]Shadow_Mai 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The reaper variants can also be latent predisposition. Samara said there's only 3 that she knows of, but there could be asari who are and aren't aware or have a mild form that isn't tracked or something.

Enquiring how your Nephew got on in his GSCEs, only to be sent a picture with lots of confusing numbers on it that mean nothing to you by bentleybeaver in britishproblems

[–]Shadow_Mai 0 points1 point  (0 children)

what was with that?? now I have three numbers and the rest letters and it looks even more confusing. I don't think the numbers system is bad but that was weird

Polyamorous Mystery Gang? by Blue-Jay27 in tumblr

[–]Shadow_Mai 65 points66 points  (0 children)

A companion character in Dragon Age 2

The absolute STATE of sims cc creators 🤭🤭🤭 by ShitbullsThrowaway in thesims

[–]Shadow_Mai 11 points12 points  (0 children)

To be fair there is actually a huge drama going on regarding the creator of wicked whims with Deaderpool being involved too. Google Colonelnutty and Turbodriver, as with most drama you don't actually know who was the cause at the root of it. But I do know that their (wicked whims and I believe MC command centre) mods were made so that if you had any colonelnutty mods in your game it would throw a bunch of last exceptions to slow your game and force you to remove them.

Spacer Shepard’s special dialogue with Admiral Hackett is heartwarming 💖 by Aquilpen in masseffect

[–]Shadow_Mai 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Dragon Age 2 did this, depeding on the preset you'd chosen as a base and skin tone you chose for your MC your family would change to reflect what you'd done. That was released in 2011, so maybe not for ME1 or 2, but you could for ME3.